You are unlikely to find a movie that respects all the Objectivist virtues or vilifies all of the Objectivist vices at once. It seems more likely that you could assemble a set of movies that each spoke to one virtue or vice. For example, The Incredibles has a message of "I'm a superhero but society doesn't want me to be" and rejection of the cult of self-esteem that seems like something Objectivists would approve of, but the protagonist is a tireless altruist.

Looking at this list, it seems like you could find a number of them that are appropriate for kids, but I'm wary of the Children's Classics category. It's not clear to me what's Objectivist about The Little Mermaid.

Dhes wrote:Maybe this will help, personally I think some of the explanations are farfetched.conservapedia

Those explanations grew progressively more horrifying as I got the growing impression that they were all serious.

This is getting further off topic, but why is Untouchables on that list? A movie where the prohibitionist government agents are the unambiguous good guys doesn't strike me as being all that Objectivist.

I would consider exactly none of them as Randian. But then, I don't know how any of the other books work besides Atlast Shrugged and her psuedo-philosophy. As far as Nietzschean, you could always go for comic books.

The problem here is that I don't keep track of kids movies really. It's much easier to represent mangas and comics cuz they usually have kids in mind.

AvatarIII wrote:a few Pixar movies mentioned, but I feel perhaps Ratatouille might be a good one.

Hmm, interesting. Gousteau's substandard restaurant is usurped by a more efficient business model, and when someone else steps in to take it down and restore it to its traditional roots, it fails spectacularly. It sort of works.

AvatarIII wrote:a few Pixar movies mentioned, but I feel perhaps Ratatouille might be a good one.

Hmm, interesting. Gousteau's substandard restaurant is usurped by a more efficient business model, and when someone else steps in to take it down and restore it to its traditional roots, it fails spectacularly. It sort of works.

I was more thinking of Remy's character as being slightly of the objectivist mindset, if you take away his familial loyalty, which is forced upon him anyway, and pales in comparison to the familial loyalty held by his ratty peers. He basically uses Linguini as a literal puppet for his own ends, and is in the end successful running the restaurant by rats who have strength in numbers.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. -Kurt Vonnegut

No, it's about a wealthy man (incidentally, not entirely self-made) who refuses to bend to the government, and through his own ingenuity and financial resources, accomplishes goals. Again, for fucks sake, libertarianism is not about 'pursuing the bottom line at all costs'. Also, at least in the Iron Man movies, we have an incompetant government and public security forces, compared to wildly intelligent private forces and security teams, we have government sponsored media covering up for them, and of course, not to forget, Tony Stark's declaration that he 'privatized peace'.

Metaphysician, I wasn't suggesting it as my own idea, Tony Start has been praised as the libertarian super hero from the get go.

... with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.